Stone/s urinary tract - removal of waiting time at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]
The median wait for stone/s urinary tract - removal of at this public hospital in the Ballarat Central area of Victoria was 24 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 90 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 28 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 26 days in 2022–23 to 24 days in 2024–25 — down 8% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 25 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Western Hospital [Footscray], about 95 km away, at 17 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.5%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] | 24 days | 0.0% | 90 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 20 days | 0.8% | 1680 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 25 days | 1.5% | 3653 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 22 | 28 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 22 | 29 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 19 | 26 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 23 | 28 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 20 | 29 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 16 | 21 |
| 2022–23 | 26 | 18 | 23 |
| 2023–24 | 24 | 14 | 24 |
| 2024–25 | 24 | 20 | 25 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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